Gov. Asa Hutchinson's attack on conventional public school districts in Pulaski County ratcheted up today with announcement of a plan to pump $3.5 million a year into a voucher program to send 500 Pulaski students o private schools.

Optometrists won a pitched and expensive (judging by lobbyist effort) battle against ophthalmologists today. The Senate approve Sen. Dave Wallace's HB 1251 to amend state law to allow optometrists to perform certain surgical procedures.

A report here on state Board of Education dissatisfaction with efforts by the Haas Hall charter schools in Northwest Arkansas to increase efforts to diversify its student body has drawn a response from a parent of a Haas Hall ninth grader in defense of the school.